AUGUSTINE, one of the most learned and laborious writers of the 18th century, was born at Meffin le Horgne, a village in the diocese of Toul in France, in the year 1672, and took the habit of the Benedictines in 1688. Among the many works he published are, 1. A literal exposition, in French, of all the books in the Old Testament, in nine volumes folio. 2. An historical, critical, chronological, geographical, and literal dictionary of the Bible, in four vols folio, enriched with a great number of figures of Jewish antiquities. 3. A civil and ecclesiastical history of Lorraine, three vols folio. 4. A history of the Old and New Testament, and of the Jews, in two volumes folio, and seven volumes duodecimo. 5. An universal sacred and profane history, in several volumes quarto. He died in 1757.